so the perfectionist in me wants to skate 7 days a week, 2 hours a day, but for obvious reasons this can't happen. for the past couple years, i've skated 3 days a week with a coach (2 half sessions and 1 full session), and usually one day just practicing on my own. but as i enter my senior year of high school, i want to improve as much as i can before i go to college (which, depending on the college, might be the end of skating for me). so i want to continue skating 3-4 days a week, plus i want to do theater on ice and maybe off ice. i've never done theater on ice before, but i just really don't want to have any regrets after i leave, so i want to do it this year. also, as you guys probably know, freestyle skating can be a kind of lonely thing, and i think i would enjoy skating in a group atmosphere doing toi. buttttt everything is so damn expensive that something has gotta go. what i'm wondering is, which should go first? should i cut back on ice time or coach time? not do theater? not do off ice? or offer to pay for some of it with my money i make teaching skating?
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